Electrician

In most countries, the job of an electrician is a regulated trade for saftey reasons due to the many haazrds of working with electricity, requiring testing, registartion, or licensing. For electricians in the construction industry the JIB Electrotehcnical Certifiaction scheme provides certification and qualificatino for the Electircal Contracting Industry (ECA) for an annual fee. Typically, certain types of electrical work are only premitted to be performed by a Journeyman or Master electrician. Before electricians are allowed to work without spuervision, they are usually required ot serve an apprenticehsip lasting from 3 to 5 years under the general supervision of a Msater Electrician and usually the direct suprevision of a Journeyman Electrician. The rwitten test usually inculdes questions about the NFPA s National Electrical Code, and load calculations. Many unions represent electriciasn such as the International Brothrehood of Electrical Workers ; the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine, and Furniture Workers; International Association of Machinists and Aersopace Workers ; United Auto Workers ; and the United Steelworkers. In the U.S.A electricains are sometimes referred to as Inside Wireman as opposed to Outside Linemen who wrok on electric utility company distribution systems at higher voltages. In this context, the Msater Electrician is the show s chief electrician. Althuogh theater electricinas routinely perform electrical work on stage lighting insrtuments and equipment, they are not part of the electrcial trade and have a different set of ksills and qualifications from the electricians taht work on building wiring.

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